Film at Eleven

Fangoria is reporting that genre veteran Dee Wallace has signed on to star in Dante Tomaselli’s upcoming horror film The Ocean, which I’ve already mentioned a few times before.

Wallace, whose credits include The Hills Have Eyes, The Howling, Cujo and The Frighteners, will play Castelli, a psychic who receives frightening visions regarding her estranged daughter Maria, who lives in Puerto Rico.

Cathy travels to Maria’s beachfront home, and in the midst of the troubled family reunion, Cathy receives more signs of an encroaching evil arising from the depths of the ocean around them.

“I’m the happiest director in the world!” Tomaselli raves to Fango about the casting. “Dee has been directed by Wes Craven, Peter Jackson, Joe Dante…and Steven Spielberg. She has starred in so many bona fide classics, it really sets the bar for me. This whole business of moviemaking runs on pure passion, and I feel so inspired—so hungry to make the best film possible with The Ocean.

Shooting for the Tomaselli’s most ambitious film to date is scheduled to start in early August in Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico.

Eric Carter’s excellent short film A Very Sunny Morning will be playing at the 2007 Portland Underground Film Festival as part of their P.U.F.F. Shorts Program.

The festival runs from June 7th to 10th and is well worth checking out if you happen to be in the area.

The Tell-Tale Heart, a new feature film by filmmaker Mark Redfield, is now in pre-production and scheduled to begin principal photography in August 2007. The new film is based on the short story by Edgar Allan Poe and the American Civil War stories of Ambrose Bierce.

Set in the final days of the American Civil War and the time of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, The Tell-Tale Heart tells the tale of Captain Winter (Mark Redfield), an Army officer obsessed with hunting down and capturing a mad killer who tortured and murdered his comrades during the conflict. The trail to catch the murderer leads to a boarding house on the outskirts of war-torn Richmond, Virginia, run by Mr. and Mrs. Clarion, played by Robert Quarry and Ingrid Pitt. There, Winter discovers that the madman is masquerading as the old couple’s son and turning the boarding house into a den of horror.

The film will be shot in Angeles, California and Baltimore, Maryland. Principal photography begins in August, 2007 for a 30 day shooting schedule, with additional location work in September, 2007.

As well as horror icons, Ingrid Pitt and Robert Quarry, the cast includes Kevin G. Shinnick and Jennifer Rouse, who spoke to our own Dale Pierce last year (here).

Stuart Voytilla and Redfield wrote the screenplay, with Redfield directing. Eric Supensky will handle the Make-Up and FX. The film will be photographed by Jeff Herberger and edited by Sean Paul Murphy.

Mark Redfield’s previous feature films include the award-winning Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (actor and director), Cold Harbour (actor and producer), The Death of Poe (actor and director) and Chainsaw Sally (actor and producer).

Now feast your eyes on some rather striking pre-production paintings for the film…

Simon Cathcart’s comedy horror, Stagknight will have its world première on Tuesday 29th May as part of the SplatterContainer Night at the 2007 Salento Fearfest.

The Salento Fearfest is the first film festival in southern Italy - and the only one in the Puglia region - dedicated to horror genre. Over its seven day run, the festival aims to show new directions that the genre is taking,

The SplatterContainer Night, which is organised in association with the SplatterContainer website is a unique night of splatter, offering three hours of thrills and horror revolving around gore, trash and girls.

And, two days later, Stagknight will be opening the Another Hole in the Head film festival in San Francisco on 1st June. The film will also be closing the festival on June 12th.

The Dead by Dawn film festival announced on Wednesday the winning features and shorts of this years festival.

The Audience Award for Best Feature went to Maurice Devereaux’s End of the Line. In second place was Alex de la Iglesia’s The Baby’s Room and in third, Nacho Cerda’s The Abandoned.

The Audience Award for Best Short goes to Jennifer Kent’s Monster. In second place was Tor Fruergaard’s It Came From The West and in joint third were Yann Chayia’s Les Petits hommes vieux and Mik Duffy’s Hitch.

For the Cutting Edge winner, the Audience Award went to Ryan Levin’s The Fifth. In second place was Colin Decker’s Mime Massacre and in third was Rod Gudino’s The Eyes of Edward James.

Congratulations to all.